Saturday, March 13, 2010

Andrea's Cheesecake

Recipe for cheesecake:

Cheese Cake - Andrea

4 pkgs 8 ounce cream ch
1 C sugar
Med sized can crushed pineapple drained overnite
1 tsp vanilla
dash cinnamon

---in blender thoroughly mixed and thick

Add 4 eggs

Pour into spring pan - graham cracker - use brown sugar

1 hr @ 350 °

Found in "The Deaf Smith Country Cookbook" by Marjorie Winn Ford, Susan Hillyard, and Mary Fault Koock. Published by Macmillan, 1979.

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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Choco Mallow Logs


Recipe:

Choco Mallow Logs

1 6 oz pkg semi-sweet chocolate
2 tbl. Parkay margine
1 egg beaten
3 cups Kraft Miniature Marshmallows
1 cup chopped nuts
Conf. sugar

Melt choc. + marg. over low heat. Remove from heat.
Add egg mix well. Cool slightly. Mix marshmallows
and nuts in large bowl. Pour chocolate mixture over
marshmallows and nuts; mix well.
Divide mixture in half.

On waxed paper sprinkled with conf. sugar shape each into a roll about 8" long. Chill several hours. Slice to serve. 2 rolls.

Found in "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" by A.C. Doyle. Published by Grosset and Dunlap, 1907.



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Saturday, January 2, 2010

Charlie Chaplin Cocktail & Art Rose's Punch


Recipe card.

Side one:

Charlie Chaplin Cocktail (Art Rose's father-in-law)

4 parts gin

2 parts imported French apricot brandy

1 part lemon juice

Shake with a bunch (?) of ice and serve.


Side Two:

Art Rose's Punch

1 part whiskey

1 part white grape juice

2 parts sparkling water

Have all chilled -
Pour over block of ice in punch bowl - serve at once.

Found in "Thesaurus of Humor" by Mildred Meiers and Jack Knapp. Published by Crown, 1940.

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Cold Catsup


Cold Catsup

1/2 pk tomatoes
1 chopped onion
1/2 cup salt
1/2 cup white mustard seed
2 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon red pepper
1 tablespoon cinnamon
2 teaspoon cloves
1 cup sugar
1 pt vinegar

-Mother Healey


No additional instructions.

Found in "Gold Medal Cook Book" published by Gold Medal Flour; manufactured by Washburn-Crosby Co., 1904.

















Saturday, December 5, 2009

Anise Cookies

Anise Cookies

1 cup sugar
6 eggs
3/4 cup oil
1 cup milk
1/2 oz. spirit of anise - anisette
6 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
7 cups flour

Bake 375° 12-15 min.
until lightly brown

Found in "Recipes from Old Hundred" by Nellie Brown. Published by Gramercy, 1965.















Thursday, November 19, 2009

Blueberry Muffins

Blueberry Muffins

2 cups flour sifted before measuring
1/4 cup sugar
4 teaspoons B Powder
1/2 teaspoons salt
1 egg well beaten
1 cup milk
1/4 cup melted butter
1 cup blueberries

Combine sifted dry ingredients. Beat egg. Add milk + melted butter. Add the liquid to dry ingredients mixing only enough to dampen flour. 25-30 minutes.


Found in "New York Gardener`s Guide" by Ralph Snodsmith. Published by Cool Springs Press, 2004.

To put this recipe to the test, I contacted Handwritten Recipe's rogue chef-for-hire. Here's what Sharon came up with:

Mise en place. Excellent start.

Make it rain.


I find this photo rather dry.


Much better.


Rather gooey. I blame the one cup of milk called for in the recipe. Seems like quite a bit, no?


You know, this is brilliant. I have the nonstick muffin tins, and even with paper cups, they take 45 minutes to clean. Foil tins FTW.


Lovely!

Final report from our chef:

"not the best tasting muffins in the world"

We'll get 'em next time.















Monday, November 2, 2009

French Kraut

French Kraut

1 head cabbage - chop
1 green peppers
1 red pepper
2/3 cup vinegar
1/2 cup water
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp celery seed
1 tbl whole allspice

Boil - cover cabbage

Found in "McLeod's Folly" by Louis Bromfield. Published by World, 1948.

Anyone else think of... ok, I can't think of any famous French-Germans. Google was no help.












Saturday, October 24, 2009

Jewish Apple Cake: Update - Someone made it



Jewish Apple Cake

4 lge. Apples
5 tbspn. Sugar
3 tspn. Cinnamon
-------- let stand

3 cup Flour
3 tspn. Baking Powder
1/2 tspn. Salt
-------- sift together

4 eggs
2 1/2 tspn Vanilla
1 cup Oil
1/4 cup Orange Juice
2 1/2 cups sugar

1. Peal & slice Apples add Sugar & Cinnamon.

2. Make batter, add dry siften ingredients. Mix well with wooden spoon.

3. Grease Tube Pan. Arrange batter and apples in layers, ending with batter.

4. Bake for 1 3/4 hr. until knife comes out clean. 350° oven.

Note: Cake tastes better after 2 days.


Found in "Japan and The Far East Conference" by Henry W. Taft. Published by Macmillan, 1921.


 Update: Jenny was awesome enough to try out this recipe.

Here are the results.


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Saturday, October 17, 2009

White Cake

White Cake (Dorothy Gifford's)

2 1/2 cups flour
1 2/3 cup sugar
Salt
3 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 1/4 cup milk
2/3 cup shortening
Vanilla
3 eggs

Bake 350° - 25-30 min.


Found in "The Perfect Mile" by Neal Bascomb. Published by Mariner Books, 2005.





Saturday, October 10, 2009

Christmas Cake


Ingredients: 1 cup of water 1 tsp baking soda 1 cup of sugar 1 cup brown sugar lemon juice 4 large eggs nuts 1 bottle Jose Quervo(sp) 2 cups of dried fruit

Directions: Sample the Quervo to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the Quervo again. To be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink. Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar. Beat again. At this point it's best to make sure the Quervo is still OK. Try another cup... just in case. Turn off the mixerer thingy. Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit. Pick the frigging fruit off the floor. Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers just pry it loose with a drewscriver. Sample the Quervo to check for tonsiticity. Next, sift the two cups of salt, or something. Whos giveshz a shit. Check the Jose Quervo. Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefing. Whatever you can find. Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over. Don't forget to beat off the turner. Finally, throw the bowl through the window, finish the Jose Quervo and hug the cat.

Cherry Mistmas!


Found in "Remember Me" by Laura Hendrie. Published by Henry Holt, 1999.

ED: I think I forgot to add "FWD: FWD: FWD: LOL: FWD:" to the title.